The legality of international military interventions by powerful nations, such as in Kosovo or Iraq, is not always clear. This book investigates the status of such interventions under international law, arguing that they are not legally authorized but gain political support from the UN Security Council in resolutions on the restoration of peace. Learn More

The ILC's Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts largely codified the customary international law of state responsibility. This work comprehensively shows how the Articles have been interpreted in international and domestic courts, with extracts from all relevant cases, background information, and analysis. Learn More

Traditionally, political legitimacy has been associated exclusively with states. But are states actually legitimate? And why should discussions of legitimacy focus only on the nation-state? This volume explores how legitimacy is intertwined with notions of statehood and how it reaches beyond the state into supranational institutions. Learn More

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field. Learn More

This book provides a detailed legal commentary of the Articles of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was passed in July 2017. Laying out its scope and the obligations of signatory states, this commentary clarifies the regulations overseeing the complex relationships between signatory states and nuclear weapon states. Learn More

Sovereign debt is necessary for states to function, yet its impact on human rights is underexplored. Bantekas and Lumina gather experts to conclude that imposing structural adjustment programmes exacerbates debt, injures the entrenched rights of peoples and their state's economic sovereignty, and worsens the borrower's economic situation. Learn More

Emissions trading schemes are the future of climate policy. This book provides a definitive assessment of whether and how emissions trading schemes around the world are regulated by international economic law - that is, by the World Trade Organization, international investment agreements, and free trade agreements. Learn More

This monograph traces the intellectual history of the international legal personality of individuals. It demonstrates how many international lawyers still rely on the idea that states are the only subjects of international law, whereas practice shows that the question of the international legal rights and duties of any entity is strictly empirical. Learn More

To what extent are states expected to take into account the interests of others when conducting relations with other states? This is thequestion examined by this book as it considers the various manifestations of what has been described as community interests in areas regulated by international law. Learn More

The Yearbook is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration. Learn More

In Rights Forfeiture and Punishment, Christopher Heath Wellman argues that those who seek to defend the moral permissibility of punishment should shift their focus from general justifying aims to moral side constraints. On Wellman's view, punishment is permissible just in case the wrongdoer has forfeited her right against punishment. Learn More

Over the past century, a new model of international law has developed under which a state's sovereign authority arises from the state's responsibility to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights for its people. In this book, Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent argue that these developments mark a turning point in the international community's conception of public authority. Learn More

Analysing both national and transnational processes, this volume offers an integrated viewpoint of the principles governing the procedural due process requirements of regional and global regulatory regimes. Learn More

Detention under international law is highly regulated, but the law appears to be silent on non-international armed conflicts. This book uses case studies to examine the extent to which international humanitarian law can be applied in non-international contexts, and sets out a concrete proposal for how the law might develop in this area. Learn More

Through careful analysis of current practice, this volume argues that international criminal tribunals should have a role in setting the highest standards of due process protection in their procedures, and that they can have a positive impact on domestic justice systems in this regard. Learn More